Ides of Gemini Announce Old World New Wave Album Details

If you’re looking at the tracklisting below and wondering why Ides of Gemini might have named one of the tracks “May 22, 1453” sophomore Neurot Recordings outing, Old World New Wave, it was the date of a partial lunar that occurred during the siege of Constantinople, during the fall of the Byzantine Empire. Perhaps that gives some glimpse of the otherworldly feel that the trio are bound to bring to the historical thematic of their second album and the follow-up to their like-minded debut, 2012’s Constantinople (discussed here), though if you’d like to dig further there’s an audio/visual sample to go with as well that’s easily worth the three minutes it takes to watch.

No word on which of these tracks is featured in that teaser, but the tracklisting and the artwork by drummer Kelly Johnston-Gibson have been revealed, and she and vocalist Sera Timms (also of Black Mare and hopefully one of these days the Gary Arce collaboration Zun) give some perspective on where they’re coming from this time around.

The PR wire has it as such:

IDES OF GEMINI: Ethereal Doom Contortionists Prepare To Release Old World New Wave; Artwork + Track Listing Revealed

Ethereal doom trio, IDES OF GEMINI, are preparing to unveil their sophomore offering, Old World New Wave, via Neurot Recordings this Fall.

IDES OF GEMINI features guitarist Jason Bennett, drummer Kelly Johnston-Gibson and the haunting vocal prowess of singer/bassist Sera Timms, also of Los Angeles dark-psych conjurors Black Mare. The follow-up to the band’s 2012 Constantinople debut, Old World New Wave was recorded at Valley Recording in Burbank, California, engineered and mixed by Chris Rakestraw (Danzig), mastered by Grammy award winning producer Matt Hyde (Slayer) and boasts the striking hand-drawn cover art of Johnston-Gibson.

Comments Timms of the offering, “For Old World New Wave we all really coalesced as a band, and were able to work off one another’s strengths. J came up with the basic concept and musical framework of the album, and Kelly and I gave it form and identity. For me, my own personal musical identity, taste, preferences etc. were eclipsed by the power of the music which worked as an animate force unto itself — so much so that I cannot listen to any of it objectively, or tell you if it’s good or bad, but I can tell you that it’s distinctively IDES OF GEMINI.”

Adds Johnston-Gibson of the images surrounding the record, “The artwork is an interpretation of Sera’s lyrical narrative, which carries over themes from Constantinople, as well as symbolic of transformations experienced by us as individuals and inevitably as a band. The minimalist, direct style of the cover and accompanying illustrations is indicative of our energies combined to create one clear, singular force, as experienced through the music, while the visual content has more to do with the story: essentially a conflict between opposing energies leading to destruction, therefore allowing a clean slate for integration of opposites into a resurrected whole.”

Old World New Wave Track Listing:
1. Black Door
2. The Chalice & The Blade
3. Seer Of Circassia
4. White Hart
5. May 22, 1453
6. The Adversary
7. Fememorde
8. Valediction
9. Scimitar

Old World New Wave will be released on CD and digitally via Neurot Recordings and on vinyl via SIGE Records on September 16th, 2014.

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Ides of Gemini, Old World New Wave Album Teaser

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